Bodies out of Bounds: Fatness and Transgression
10 best books like Bodies out of Bounds: Fatness and Transgression (Jana Evans Braziel): The Fat Girl's Guide to Life, Feed Me!: Writers Dish About Food, Eating, Weight, and Body Image, Fat! So?: Because You Don't Have to Apologize for Your Size, The Obesity Myth: Why America's Obsession with Weight is Hazardous to Your Health, The Fat Studies Reader, Fat Shame: Stigma and the Fat Body in American Culture, Lessons from the Fat-O-Sphere: Quit Dieting and Declare a Truce with Your Body, What's Wrong with Fat?, Rethinking Thin: The New Science of Weight Loss--And the Myths and Realities of Dieting, Hot & Heavy: Fierce Fat Girls on Life, Love & Fashion
The Fat Girl's Guide to Life
| Author | Wendy Shanker |
| ISBN | 1582345538 |
Vibrant, vivacious, and gorgeous, Wendy Shanker is a fat girl who has simply had enough-enough of family, friends, co-workers, women's magazines, even strangers on the street all trying (and failing) to make her thin. Written in Wendy's wonderfully funny and candid voice, The Fat Girl's Guide to...
| Author | Harriet Brown |
| ISBN | 0345500881 |
In our appearance-obsessed society, eating is about much more than hunger and sustenance. Food inspires pleasure and anxiety, shame and obsession. We are constantly judged on how we look, so we’ve come to judge ourselves (and others) on what and how we eat.
These evocative essays, from...
| Author | Marilyn Wann |
| ISBN | 0898159954 |
Fat? Chunky? Less than svelte? So what! In this hilarious and eye-opening book, fat and proud activist/zinester Marilyn Wann takes on Americas' biggest fear—worse than the fear of public speaking or nuclear weapons—our fear of fat.Statistics tell us that about a third of Americans are fat, and...
| Author | Paul Campos |
| ISBN | 1592400663 |
Is your weight hazardous to your health? According to public-health authorities, 65 percent of us are overweight. Every day, we are bombarded with dire warnings about America’'s “obesity epidemic.” Close to half of the adult population is dieting, obsessed with achieving an arbitrary “ideal...
| Author | Esther D. Rothblum |
| ISBN | 0814776310 |
Winner of the 2010 Distinguished Publication Award from the Association for Women in Psychology
Winner of the 2010 Susan Koppelman Award for the Best Edited Volume in Women's Studies from the Popular Culture Association
We have all seen the segments on television news shows: A fat...
Fat Shame: Stigma and the Fat Body in American Culture
| Author | Amy Erdman Farrell |
| ISBN | 0814727689 |
One of Choice's Significant University Press Titles for Undergraduates, 2010-2011
To be fat hasn't always occasioned the level of hysteria that this condition receives today and indeed was once considered an admirable trait. Fat Shame: Stigma and the Fat Body in American Culture explores...
Lessons from the Fat-O-Sphere: Quit Dieting and Declare a Truce with Your Body
| Author | Kate Harding |
| ISBN | 0399534970 |
From the leading bloggers in the fat-acceptance movement comes an empowering guide to body image- no matter what the scales say.
When it comes to body image, women can be their own worst enemies, aided and abetted by society and the media. But Harding and Kirby, the leading bloggers in the "fatosphere,"...
| Author | Abigail C. Saguy |
| ISBN | 0199857083 |
The United States, we are told, is facing an obesity epidemic-a "battle of the bulge" of not just national, but global proportions-that requires drastic and immediate action. Experts in the media, medical science, and government alike are scrambling to find answers. What or who is responsible for...
Rethinking Thin: The New Science of Weight Loss--And the Myths and Realities of Dieting
| Author | Gina Kolata |
| ISBN | 0374103984 |
In this eye-opening book, "New York Times" science writer Gina Kolata shows that our society's obsession with dieting and weight loss is less about keeping trim and staying healthy than about money, power, trends, and impossible ideals.
"Rethinking Thin" is at once an account of the place...
Hot & Heavy: Fierce Fat Girls on Life, Love & Fashion
| Author | Virgie Tovar |
| ISBN | 1580054382 |
In this fun, fresh, fat-positive anthology, fat activist and sex educator Virgie Tovar brings together voices from an often-marginalized community to talk about and celebrate their lives. Hot & Heavy rejects the idea that being thin is best, instead embracing the many fabulous aspects of being...
| Author | Susie Orbach |
| ISBN | 0099481936 |
When it was first published, Fat Is A Feminist Issue became an instant classic and it is as relevant today as it was then. Reflecting on our increasingly diet and body-obsessed society, Susie Orbach's new introduction explains how generations of women and girls are growing up absorbing the eating anxieties...
Health at Every Size: The Surprising Truth About Your Weight
| Author | Linda Bacon |
| ISBN | 1933771585 |
Fat isn't the problem. Dieting is the problem. A society that rejects anyone whose body shape or size doesn’t match an impossible ideal is the problem. A medical establishment that equates "thin" with "healthy" is the problem. Health at Every Size: The Surprising Truth About Your Weight by Linda...
Two Whole Cakes: How to Stop Dieting and Learn to Love Your Body
| Author | Lesley Kinzel |
| ISBN | 1558617930 |
In the age of The Biggest Loser and the “war on obesity,” we’re pressured to conform to certain body standards at any cost. Sure, everyone should eat right and get exercise, but what if you do that and you still don’t fit into the clothes at the mall?
In Two Whole Cakes, Fatshionista...
The War on Choice: The Right-Wing Attack on Women's Rights and How to Fight Back
| Author | Gloria Feldt |
| ISBN | 0553382926 |
Accessible and impassioned, here is an eye-opening look at the right wing strategy to reverse the gains American women have made over the past 50 years. The War on Choice chronicles the actions being taken at the highest levels of government to turn back the clock on women's rights.
With the...
| Author | Ophira Edut |
| ISBN | 1580051081 |
Pick up a magazine, turn on the TV, and you'll find few women who haven't been fried, dyed, plucked, or tucked. In short, you'll see no body outlaws.
The writers in this groundbreaking anthology reveal a world where bodies come in all their many-splendored shapes, sizes, colors, and textures. In...
Broken Words: The Abuse of Science and Faith in American Politics
| Author | Jonathan Dudley |
| ISBN | 0385525265 |
Abortion. Homosexuality. Environmentalism. Evolution. Conservative positions on these topics are the current boundaries of mainstream Evangelical Christianity. But what if the theological arguments given by popular leaders on these “big four” were not quite as clear cut as they claim?...
Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body
| Author | Susan Bordo |
| ISBN | 0520240545 |
"Unbearable Weight is brilliant. From an immensely knowledgeable feminist perspective, in engaging, jargonless (!) prose, Bordo analyzes a whole range of issues connected to the body—weight and weight loss, exercise, media images, movies, advertising, anorexia and bulimia, and much more—in...
Fat: The Anthropology of an Obsession
| Author | Don Kulick |
| ISBN | 1585423866 |
An eclectic and highly original examination of one of the most dynamic concepts-and constructs-in the world.
With more than one billion overweight adults in the world today, obesity has become an epidemic. But fat is not as straightforward-or even as uni-versally damned-as one might think....
| Author | Hanne Blank |
| ISBN | 1890159166 |
At last, a book that covers the how-tos and why-tos of sexuality from the point of view of big folks and those who love them! "Big Big Love" is a no-holds-barred, yet lighthearted, overview of sex for everybody from the chubby to the supersized. Detailed and realistic information on improving self-image,...
Scoot Over, Skinny: The Fat Nonfiction Anthology
| Author | Donna Jarrell |
| ISBN | 0156030225 |
As Americans are the fattest people on earth, the fat, the formerly fat, those who feel fat, and those who fear fat encompass just about all of us. In this surprising collection of pieces, almost half of which are original to this anthology, some of our most lively, provocative writers explore the many...
Never Satisfied : A Cultural History of Diets, Fantasies & Fat
| Author | Hillel Schwartz |
| ISBN | 0385411588 |
I finished this book, perhaps not ironically, at lunch this afternoon. I found it intriguing--particularly coming off my recent perusal of "Diets that Time Forgot," a BBC reality-television series that followed 9 dieters as they historically-reenacted both time period and diet fads of Victorian,...
| Author | Camryn Manheim |
| ISBN | 0767903633 |
In this New York Times-bestselling inspirational memoir, Camryn Manheim, Emmy Award-winning costar of The Practice, chronicles her journey from a self-hating, "overweight" teenager, who desperately wanted to fit in, to a self-loving, fat activist who is proud to be a misfit. Wake Up, I'm Fat!...
Fat Politics: The Real Story Behind America's Obesity Epidemic
| Author | J. Eric Oliver |
| ISBN | 0195313208 |
It seems almost daily we read newspaper articles and watch news reports exposing the growing epidemic of obesity in America. Our government tells we are experiencing a major health crisis, with sixty percent of Americans classified as overweight, and one in four as obese. But how valid are these claims?...
The Obsession: Reflections on the Tyranny of Slenderness
| Author | Kim Chernin |
| ISBN | 0060925051 |
The Obsession is a deeply committed and beautifully written analysis of our society's increasing demand that women be thin. It offers a careful, thought provoking discussion of the reasons men have encouraged this obsession and women have embraced it. It is a book about women's efforts to become thin...
When Women Stop Hating Their Bodies: Freeing Yourself from Food and Weight Obsession
"Will empower all women to stop believing that our bodies are the problems, dieting the solution."
--Harriet Lerner, Ph.D.
Author of The Dance of Anger
In this revolutionary new book, bestselling authors Carol Munter and Jane Hirschmann explore the myriad reasons...
